DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Cubrid vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Cubrid vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

sphinxsearch.com

www.splunk.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

cubrid.org/manuals

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Splunk Inc.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2016

2008

2001

2003

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

11.0, January 2021

3.5.1, February 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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